Road crashes in Hackney

22,040 recorded collisions since 2000.

Hackney has recorded 22,040 road collisions since 2000, 119 of them fatal and 3,056 causing serious injury. That makes it the 34th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.4 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 40% since 2000, from 1,211 to 725 in 2024. The A10 is the most affected road locally, with 4,303 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.